senators who backed George Bush on his economic policies are now on national television behaving like they just won the noble prize in economics.

All of a sudden everyone has something to say. They are now bumping into each other, fighting to get in the spotlight to bash Obama. These are the same people who encouraged George Bush to milk the treasury to give tax cuts to the rich and prolong the ill fated Iraq war. Now they are trying to coerce Obama to follow the same failed policies. Warning him that if he does not give more tax cut to the wealthy the country will not recover from the crisis. Now that we see the inner workings of Wall Street we see what the wealthy do with their money.

We have one guy presiding over a Fifty Billion dollar company that was built on fraud. We see super lavish lifestyle, bribery, corruption and swindling of the unsuspected in large scale.

President Obama knows that the American people did not vote him in to continue on that part. Despite the vicious onslaught coming from the republican congress and their attack dogs, Obama is still enjoying a very favorable opinion rating from the public. He just have to get up every day and read his own manifesto and remember exactly what he promises American people that he is going to do.

By Andrew M. Manis

For much of the last forty years, ever since America “fixed” its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, “When are African Americans

finally going to get over it? Now I want to ask: “When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?

Recent reports that “Election Spurs Hundreds’ of Race Threats, Crimes” should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in “Bombingham,” Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than “talk the talk.”

Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.
We white people have controlled political life in the disunited colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent. Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes. Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on their heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the perpetrator was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody Foster.
But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we’re back in the sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we’ve proven what conservatives are always saying — that in America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president. But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California are talking about wanting to “assassinate Obama.”
Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, “How long?” How long before we white people realize we can’t make our nation, much less the whole world, look like us? How long until we white people can – once and for all – get over this hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color? How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that white skin makes us superior? How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?
How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at the head of the line merely because of our white skin? How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our white-only conversations?
I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start making racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners? How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?
How long before we starting “living out the true meaning” of our creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and that “red and yellow, black and white” all are precious in God’s sight?
Until this past November 4, I didn’t believe this country would ever elect an African American to the presidency. I still don’t believe I’ll live long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem. But here’s my three-point plan: First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that Black Slaves Built, I’m going to pray that God (and the Secret Service) will protect him and his family from us white people.
Second, I’m going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature about President Obama. Third, I’m going to pray to live long enough to see America surprise the world once again, when white people can “in spirit and in truth” sing of our damnable color prejudice, “We HAVE overcome.”
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It takes a Village to protect our President!!!

these guys have their own agendas. They are already pissed off that a black man is in the white house much more to help him to succeed. Never mind the millions of Americans who will lose their jobs, homes and sanity during this crisis. Thanks to their chief race bater Rush Limbaugh to be an outspoken person. He just tell it like it is, don't beat around the bush. He does not want Obama to succeed. The followers are afraid to say it but they let their votes speak out for them.

President Obama came out of la-la land last night and went out to give a speech to the Amercan people letting them know what is going on. Imagine these are the same republicans who gave George Bush 700 billion dollars to dish out to their friends in the banking industry, now they are all rebelling when average American will get chance to benefit from the Obama stimulus package. These are the same guys who gave Bush a blank check to go to war and rack up a trillion dollar deficit but now all of sudden they are 'conservatives' again. The American people will not go down with them again, they will stand up this time.

Barrack Obama would be stupid to allow these guys to railroad him. He is smart enough to kwon what they are about. These are the same guys who are quick to point out people who are anti-American but yet they would rather to see the country go down than a black man to succeed.

Featured Comment From Our reader:

Now, not only politicians are corrupt and ginnals, but it is so sad to see the persons who we once thought had moral values are now caught in the web. When church men are drawn into government, we expect them to be bi-partisan and bring some freshness and sanity to the table, Instead

what do we have today? Ministers who are willing to sell their souls for positions and to say what politicians want them to say, or what they think is politicallly correct. My heart bleeds to see the low standard that the church has lowered itself into and has bring the name of God into disrepute. There is one famous preacher who has recently being given a big post and some of his utterances these days leave such a bad taste in my mouth.What about forgiveness? They behave as if they are sinless, but the bible says he that is without sin cast the first stone. Some of them are more JLP and PNP than the ordinary man on the street. All they now need is a microphone and a car to go on the street and c ampaign for their party. I say to them all “Shame on you”. God will not share His glory and some of you have taken on the role to become mini gods , pretending that you know what will heal the ills of this country, minus GOD!!!!!! HE alone is the ultimate and all your plans will go to naught if you do not go back to basic and ask Him for guidance. Have you wondered why persons are no longer interested in listening to you or seeking the right way but continues to create murder and mayhem? Lord, help Jamaica land we love. Save us from ourselves because we are our own worse enemy!!!!

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